BIB_ID
424275
Accession number
MA 14251.6
Creator
Eliot, George, 1819-1880, sender.
Display Date
Griff, England, 1840 December 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 23 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Date of writing from postmark.
To "My dear little cherished sprig of Ivy".
Letter signed "Clematis."
Postmarked with remains of seal, with address panel reading: Miss Martha Jackson / Gobious / near Hertford.
One of a collection of 13 letters from George Eliot to her friend and former schoolfellow, Martha Jackson (Barclay) (see MA 14251.1-13).
To "My dear little cherished sprig of Ivy".
Letter signed "Clematis."
Postmarked with remains of seal, with address panel reading: Miss Martha Jackson / Gobious / near Hertford.
One of a collection of 13 letters from George Eliot to her friend and former schoolfellow, Martha Jackson (Barclay) (see MA 14251.1-13).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Assuring her of her continued devotion to her despite her failure to write her sooner, and explaining that she has been too busy to respond in a timely manner; mentioning that Jessie (Barclay) has been staying with her and expressing her disappointed at Martha Jackson's failure to become engaged ("Would that I knew by what part Mother Nature held you when she plunged you in the invincibility bestowing stream! I would quickly apprize Cupid & Mr. Field that they might unitedly lay siege to the pregnable quarter.").
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